Hey guys! Sorry I didn't make this chapter longer, but I wanted to upload it ASAP, as I hate cliffhangers... like my last chapter. Besides, I have to go and get ready for church soon, and I wanted to get it done before then :)
"Oh, SAAAASUUKEEEE!" Orochimaru called in a girlish voice, knocking on the door to his bedroom.
This was the disturbing thing that Itachi woke to.
The pitiful Uchiha popped his eyes open and groaned as he sat up, annoyed. It was such a drag that he had to live with stupid Orochimaru now. I mean, he left the Akatsuki and all…
Itachi had delivered the news to Pein. "Orochimaru… has left the Akatsuki."
Pein stared at Itachi blankly. "Wait… what?"
"You heard me, Orochimaru is gone. Do I have to say it again?"
The leader cocked his head to one side. "But… why did he leave?"
Itachi sighed. "Well, we were on our mission, when he tried to kill me so that I can be his next 'vessel,' or whatever. So… I punched him in the face and he let me go. Then he ran away, screaming… um… yeah. He also said that he would never come back."
Pein seemed to be intensely taking this in as Itachi spoke of what had happened earlier that day. He nodded slowly as Itachi told the story. When Itachi finished speaking, there was a pause, before he apologized. "I'm sorry, but I wasn't able to complete the mission, with all of THAT happening."
Another pause before Rinnegan-eyed man stated: "Itachi, I'm surprised at you. You have NEVER failed to complete a mission before…"
The Uchiha bowed down to his leader. "I apologize, leader-sama. I promise to complete the mission next time, no matter what happens."
And to his utter surprise, the leader grew a freakishly smug smile on his face. "That doesn't matter, Itachi. Orochimaru is gone!" Pein took Itachi's shoulders and aggressively pushed them so that Itachi was now standing in an upright position. "I'll send Kakuzu and Hidan to finish your mission tomorrow. But Itachi, I always knew that you were the best ninja in this organization! Orochimaru IS a good ninja and all, but now we don't have to worry about him raping anyone again!" Pein's smug smile had turned into a humungous, goofy grin by now, and he was jumping up and down in excitement, that no one had ever seen before… It was especially weird that such a solemn man could still have so much enthusiasm in him. "Well done, son! Well done! This… CALLS FOR A CELEBRATION! WHOOPIE!"
All the young Uchiha could do was stare in wide-eyed shock as his leader literally bounced off the walls (and yes, I mean literally) before running outside of his candle-lit office slamming the door, leaving Itachi gawking behind. The Uchiha was frozen in place, listening to his leader running up and down the halls, and the stairs, screaming ("OROCHIMARU'S GONE, EVERYONE! LET'S PARTY!"). His footsteps sounded like they were too fast to even be possible, as if it were everyone in the Akatsuki running around instead of just one, disturbing man.
Pein's party had only lasted about five minutes before Pein was the only drunk one and Deidara and Hidan had locked him in a closet to merrily laugh with himself.
Itachi did nothing but think that night. Could this possibly be his new worst night ever?
And what made matters worse was that the next day, Pein acted like himself. As serious as ever. Like he was not hung-over. Like he had not just done the most creepish thing of all time the previous day. Not another word was said about it. No one wanted to remember that awful night.
Yes, Itachi was now scarred for life, worse than anyone else in the organization, as he had seen it all first.
Itachi shuddered at the horrible memory, that he only wished to forget as he slipped on one of Sasuke's shirts (he didn't want the pedophile to see his little brother… exposed) and opened the door. Only to see his former partner-in-crime standing right there, trying to look sexy… *awkward…*
"Sasuke-kun," Orochimaru drawled, placing a blinding white hand on Sasuke's head, pissing off his older brother who dwelled inside (although the IDIOT had no idea). "It's time to train! Let us go down to the dojo!"
Itachi slapped Orochimaru's hand off of his head (was this really what Sasuke had to go through EVERY SINGLE DAY?). "I have a headache, and I'm not up for training," the Uchiha hastily stated. Then, not a second after he had spoken, slammed the door and locked it behind.
Itachi leaned against the door, panting as he slid down to the floor. He was a wreck.
"Aname," he muttered. "Where are you?"
"Sasuke-kun? Sasuke-kun?" Orochimaru was still pounding on the door.
Itachi sighed, still wanting to kill the stupid idiot outside.
"Yes, Itachi. This is what your brother goes through every day."
The Uchiha felt something on his left shoulder, and looked up to see the most beautiful face ever, for once holding pity and seriousness.
"Aname," Itachi growled. "Why is this happening? What nonsense is…" He motioned to Sasuke's body. "…This?"
Aname, who was gracefully seated on Itachi's shoulder, closed her eyes and sighed. "It's for your own good, Itachi-san. I mean, Sasuke's not happy about it either, or anything. In fact, yesterday he literally went crazy. I just feel sorry for Kisame…"
"Wait… what?" Itachi looked up at Aname, puzzled. Aname gulped.
"Um, he attacked Kisame…" she said, drifting off.
"And?" Itachi asked.
Aname just looked up. "That's it," she said.
But for some reason, Itachi didn't believe her. However, he asked no more questions.
Sasuke was fishing through Itachi's closet, only to pull out exactly what he was looking for.
A small brown pouch, full of a ninja's weapons.
Sasuke smirked and opened it up before pulling out exactly what he had been looking for. A sharp, metal, kunai.
He had hoped to kill his brother in a more painful way, but he wasn't going to let this opportunity swing by. He HAD to take advantage of it.
Sasuke felt a rush of adrenaline as he held the blade up to Itachi's chest, feeling the sharp end poke where his heart was thumping with thrill and excitement.
"See you in hell, Itachi." Sasuke said before madly laughing. At least he would die happy.
And with that said, he lifted the blade and thrust it towards Itachi's heart…
…Before a small hand stopped it.
Sasuke had drawn blood, but it had only stabbed through a few layers of flesh before he saw a little, angry woman staring furiously back at him, her hand gripping the blade of the sharp kunai. Emerald green liquid was dripping from the girl's hand and dripping down the Uchiha's chest, along with the red blood.
A furious silence engulfed the two as they stared into each other's eyes. Sasuke was livid as he dried to dig the blade deeper into the chest of his brother. But the short girl was much stronger than she looked. For she ripped the blade from his hand, red and green liquid drizzling down the blade (it looked rather like Christmas, although neither were thinking of this, as the moment was very intense between them).
"Aname," Sasuke grumbled.
The fire-haired girl grabbed the pouch beside her feet, stuffed the kunai inside, and the Uchiha stared in anger as it faded away in her hands.
"You will NOT do this," Aname said, folding her arms.
Sasuke curled his hand in a fist and attempted to punch Aname square in the face. But it was as if she had a force field, as he bounded backwards onto his brother's bed, knocking his head against the window, which was cracked with the great force.
Aname's eyes seemed to glow with fierce anger and hatred as she glided over to where Sasuke leaned against the window, looking rather upset.
Well, it got worse for the poor young man, because the next thing he knew, Aname was standing on the bed, holding his shirt collar, and slapping him across the face while saying, "What the hell is WRONG with you? Pull yourself together, idiot!"
"Ouch! Okay, okay!" Sasuke was yelping. "I promise I won't do it again!" It was as if this girl had electric metal fists (so it really sucked to be Sasuke at the moment). D:
Aname abruptly stopped. She still looked as scary as ever as she quietly stated, "I'll make sure of that." Then she inspected the window before it became smooth glass once again beneath her gaze. She did the same with the wound on the Uchiha's chest. Sasuke sighed in disappointment.
The young girl solemnly seated herself next to the young man and gently looked into his eyes. "Look, Sasuke. I know how much you despise Itachi. Trust me."
"Hmph," Sasuke said, looking away from Aname. She sighed and stared straight ahead of herself.
"But there are SO many things that you don't know about him. And I mean, there are a lot of things that you have to learn about your brother. And the same goes to him. In fact, Sasuke," Aname looked up at him with a kind smile, while Sasuke angrily looked back at her, "once you learn how to respect your brother, I'll let you see something that will reveal everything about him."
Sasuke sweatdropped, considering how wrong that sounded.
Upon seeing this, Aname's happy expression soon changed to shock. "No! No! NO! That is SO NOT what I meant! Like, not… PHYSICALLY. Ugh, I can't tell you right now. You have to learn some respect, first."
There was an awkward silence, as if a gay baby had been born.
Ahehehe... ^_^U Sorry about the suckish ending...
Anyways, I would like to thank all those who are reading my fanfics. So, thank you, everyone who is currently reading this! You guys are amazing, and I'll check out your fics, too!
Also, I would like to give a VERY special thanks to Echo Uchiha, who reads/reviews my fanfics tons! Echo Uchiha, whenever I see your reviews, I just smile :) So thank you soo very much! And I hope you enjoy the rest of this and my other fic, "More Than A Feeling" (which I desparately need to work on ^_^U). Once again, thank you!
So, I'll upload ASAP, but remember, I have another fic I'm working on, and I have but one more month of freedom until "IT" begins. :,-( So I'll work work work work work work work work work quickly. ^^